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Flavorful Fatherhood: Black Celeb Dads
Reading bedtime stories to his daughter so that she would fall asleep did not work in the Jackson household. In an audio recording on YouTube, the actor describes how he used “colorful” language to his daughter Zoe, now 30, to close up shop for the night. “I did say, ‘Go the f—k to sleep’ to…
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2013 Tony Awards in Pictures
Patina Miller, winner of the award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical for Pippin; Cicely Tyson, winner of the award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play for The Trip to Bountiful; and Billy Porter, winner of the award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a…
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No One Does Victory Like Serena Williams
June 9, 2013: Serena Williams celebrates as she wins the French Open final against Russia’s Maria Sharapova at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris. Sept. 9, 2012: Williams lifts the championship trophy after defeating Victoria Azarenka of Belarus to win the women’s-singles final match on day 14 of the U.S. Open at the USTA National…
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Beyond Trayvon: Black and Unarmed
Last year’s killing of unarmed Florida teenager Trayvon Martin by a neighborhood-watch captain who deemed him “suspicious” and who claims that he shot the 17-year-old in self-defense sparked a heartbreaking national conversation about race and justice. His story is all the more tragic because it follows a familiar pattern. As George Zimmerman’s second-degree-murder trial begins,…
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'What's Love Got to Do With It' Cast Updates
Bassett played Tina Turner over the course of her eventful life — from Anna Mae Bullock, a small-town girl with a voice that was out of this world, to her discovery by Ike Turner at a St. Louis, Mo., bar and the formation of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. After a tumultuous relationship filled…
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'What's Love Got to Do With It': 10 Facts
It has been 20 years since the release of the epic biopic What’s Love Got to Do With It. Angela Bassett toned up and shook a tail feather as Anna Mae Bullock — a small-town girl from the Nutbush, Tenn., city limits, turned into Tina Turner, a husky-voiced singer leading the Ike & Tina Turner…
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The Trayvon Martin Timeline
One year ago, African-American Florida teen Trayvon Martin, 17, was shot and killed at his father’s gated community by George Zimmerman, a white Hispanic resident of the community. The killing outraged thousands of Americans and launched a renewed dialogue about racial profiling, “Stand your ground” laws and gun control. About 7 p.m. Zimmerman, a 28-year-old…
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The Strange Face of Jim Crow
The following historical images and photos of memorabilia may be disturbing, but they show the foundation being laid for negative stereotypes of African Americans that persist to this day in a less overt fashion. This slideshow is not meant to glorify, but rather to teach. Read more about how these images came to be in…
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